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United Fruit Company Photograph Collection | Baker Library
include planting, spraying, irrigation, and harvesting. Photographs also depict the construction and running of railroads, the building of wharves, company towns, schools, hospitals, and recreational facilities. The photographs also... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
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In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
An Emmy Award–winning television writer, Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) started out by taking a sitcom writing class at the UCLA Extension School while working as a senior business planner at Walt Disney Studios. Now an executive producer for The Good Wife, he has also... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Fine-Tuning
FLÜGELMAN: A global financier whose classical compositions have won worldwide acclaim. Starting with piano lessons as a boy in Buenos Aires, Máximo Flügelman (MBA 1971) found that he enjoyed creating his own music. But instead of pursuing the arts, he went to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Artful Tour
Planning Director Sharon Black, right, gave fall reunion attendees a briefing and tour of HBS’s growing Schwartz Art Collection, which includes about 200 contemporary works. Gerald Schwartz (MBA ’70) purchased the first two works for the School in 1995 and has returned... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
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Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
(sent in by class-notes secretaries) Games 1972J. Section A started our bingo game in the second term of our first year (1971). Cards had the names of roughly a third of the class (24 of 75) on them (5 each for B, I, G, and O and 4 plus the “free” spot for N). When... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
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Case Study: Let’s Dance
Illustration by Avalon Nuovo Before launching her own startup, Lily Liang (MBA 2008) worked as a product manager in San Francisco’s tech industry, including a stint at the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes from 2012 to 2017. Those were especially heady years in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
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Hollywood Squared
In an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal (September 4, 2007), Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman and CEO Michael Lynton (MBA ’87) declared that from his perspective “the global economy in general — and the entertainment business in particular — is absolutely... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 05 Apr 2020
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Launching in a World in Limbo
photo by Getty/Bloomberg Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) and Jeffrey Katzenberg have said from the very beginning that their mobile, short-form streaming service, Quibi, would launch on April 6. Even as the world has been hobbled by a pandemic, they nailed their deadline. On... View Details
- 28 Feb 2020
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Kelly Campbell Named President of Hulu
Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images Walt Disney Co. announced that it was promoting Kelly Campbell (MBA 2005) to president of the streaming service Hulu, the Los Angeles Times reports. With 30 million subscribers and a host of network television... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 23 Mar 2014
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76ers' CEO Plays It Forward
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Guitar Hero
As any music industry executive will tell you, rock-and-roll drives the business. And as any ten-year-old with a boom box knows, the guitar rules rock. So when it comes to pop music's signature instrument, even though he may lack flashy moves and a marquee-friendly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
Just as radio revolutionized the entertainment world at the turn of the century, satellite broadcasting, the Internet, VCRs, and new communications technologies are transforming the entertainment industry, said Universal Studios chairman Frank J. Biondi, Jr. (MBA '68),... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 01 Jun 2000
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Slam Dunk
Good news for basketball fanatics: Your obsession is only going to get worse, thanks to Scott O'Neil (MBA '98), president of HoopsTV.com, an Internet start-up based in Paoli, Pennsylvania. According to the Dow Jones News Service (March 9, 2000), Hoops, launched last... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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The HBS Show Must Go On: "STARt-up WARS" Continues Tradition of Smash Hits
So began the legend of STARt-up WARS Episode One: The Venture Menace, this year's HBS Show, held in early April before capacity crowds in Burden Auditorium. Spoofing the Star Wars films, STARt-up WARS poked fun at the "growing divide" between students pursuing dot-com... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Nov 2014
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Setting Up Shop on the Sunset Strip
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
Jeff Norton “Popular culture can give the world a shared set of experiences, a starting point. I want to produce someone’s favorite movie.” Question He Asks Strangers Everywhere: What is your favorite movie? Grew Up: Burlington, Ontario Bachelor of Commerce: Queen’s... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Club Flourishes in London
tasting, conducted by an obliging wine merchant, to get ready for this year's challenge." Winetastings are just one of many kinds of recreational and more substantive events designed to reach Weedon's goal of increasing participation of... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Career Makeover
Maximum utilization of assets on hand is a key to business success. It’s also an operating philosophy for Jackie Davis (MBA ’83), a former executive who’s now a TV personality and interior designer. When Davis does a redecorating makeover, she typically limits herself... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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The Sound of Music
The renowned Silk Road Ensemble put on an impromptu lunchtime performance in HBS’s Spangler Center in late September, drawing an admiring crowd of students, faculty, and staff. The ensemble is led by celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma and brings together performers and... View Details
Keywords: Christianity
- 01 Apr 1997
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An Orchestral Startup
In 1993, Richard J. Lim (HBS '98), a violinist with a degree in economics and East Asian studies from Harvard College, cofounded the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, a critically acclaimed thirty-member chamber orchestra based in Boston. In just its third concert... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed